Weekly Reflection from Fr. Jon

Acts 3:12-19 4.14.24

John 3:14-21 3.10.24

Mark 8:31-38 2.25.24

2 Kings 2:1-12 2.11.24

Matthew 22:34-46 10.29.23

Luke 4:14-21 10.15.23

Matthew 18:21-35 9.17.23

Romans 12:9-21 9.3.23

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 7-30-23

Romans 8:1-11 7-11-23

Even a brief survey of the world around us should suggest that everyone is capable of fear, jealousy, selfishness, and anger…

Acts 1:6-14 5-21-23

1 Peter 2:2-10 5-7-23

Luke 24:13-35 4-23-23

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John 9:18-34 3-19-23

How can we know if a prophet is a true prophet or just someone making things up?

1 John 3:16-24 4.21.24

Jeremiah 31:31-24 3.17.24

Exodus 20:1-17 3.3.24

Mark 1:9-15 2.18.24

Matthew 25:1-13 11.5.23

Matthew 22:15-22 10.22.23

Matthew 21:23-32 10.1.23

Matthew 18:15-20 9.10.23

2 Peter 1:13-21 8-6-23

Romans 8:12-17 7-23-23

Matthew 9:9-13,18-26 6-11-23

Who are God’s promises for?

1 Peter 3:13-22 5-14-23

John 10:1-10 4-30-23

Ezekiel 37:1-4 3-26-23

Romans 5:1-11 3-12-23

Hope is God’s greatest gift to humanity…

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 3-5-23

One of my guilty pleasures is reading advice columnists…

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 Feb. 5, 2023

In the life of Jesus, God has offered to humanity an example to follow

John 1:29-42 Jan. 15, 2023

Humans, typically, have five senses: hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, and touching…

Matthew 1:18-25 Dec. 18, 2022

Here’s a fun Bible fact, Joseph never speaks in the Gospels; we only ever learn what he is thinking or what he does but no spoken words of his are recorded!

Matthew 3:1-12 Dec. 4, 2022

In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”…

Psalm 98:1 Nov. 13, 2022

One of my favorite hymns is Amazing Grace, which … was written by a man, John Newton, who had been involved in the Atlantic Slave trade…

Luke 19:1-10 Oct. 30, 2022

Zacchaeus is an interesting character and really not so different from lots of the people…

Luke 18:1-8 Oct. 16, 2022

I’ve always found Jesus’ characterization of his Father here to be somewhat amusing…

Psalm 111 Oct. 9, 2022

One of the most important points that Jesus makes, again and again, is that the key motivation for all that God does is love.…

2 Timothy 1:8-14 Oct. 2, 2022

Foolishness. St Paul and his followers often talk about the faith as a kind of foolishness…

Luke 16:1-13 Sept. 18, 2022

I imagine that most of us aren’t what you might call “evil.”

Matthew 5:21-26, 33-37 2-12-23

The world is a complicated place sometimes and it bombards our brains with more stimulus than we can reasonably manage…

Matthew 5:1-12 Jan. 29, 2023

It is a truism in our society that we value what the famous and wealthy have to say …

Matthew 3:13-17 Jan. 8, 2023

The baptism of Jesus is the launching point of Jesus’ earthly ministry…

Matthew 11:2-11 Dec. 11, 2022

John the Baptist was the one who had baptized Jesus, anointing him really, as the embodiment of the hopes of Israel…

Colossians 1:11-20 Nov. 20, 2022

There was a book that my kids (and I) really loved called “How Full is Your Bucket?”

JOB 19:23-27A NOV. 6, 2022

Here in of the very oldest written works in the scriptures, Job proclaims his confidence in God’s power over death…

Sirach 35:12-17 Oct. 23, 2022

One of the themes that emerges from scripture … is the importance of having integrity in our relationships…

1 Timothy 6:6-19 Sept. 25, 2022

I don’t know if you’ve heard of Malcolm Gladwell, but he’s a sort of modern philosopher who is very influential…

Luke 15:1-10 Sept. 11, 2022

Some years ago, I used to own some property in the country and seriously considered raising sheep…

Luke 14:25-33 Sept. 4, 2022

I have to believe that many in the crowd who were following Jesus, when they heard this must have shaken their heads; decided Jesus was nuts…

Isaiah 58:9b-14 Aug. 21, 2022

One of the most curious commands Jesus gives to his followers, just before he sends them out on their first ‘solo’ missions is …